Tea Beyond 24oz Non Drop Infuser Teapot review
Tue, Mar 3rd 2015 10:18a Chris MillerWe take a look at Tea Beyond Teapot with Infuser in the 24oz size. Tea Beyond makes blooming flower and loose teas that sit nicely inside the all glass tea pot infuser. The flowers come in a variety package as well as the loose teas. You are able to use the flowers more than once in the Tea Beyond Infuser which is a great selling point, just leave some water in the tea pot and refill. We enjoyed watching the blooming or even using the loose teas through the clear glass design. The only down

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Miss your free exam voucher at IBM ConnectED 2015?
Fri, Feb 27th 2015 10:28a Chris MillerIf you were an attendee of IBM ConnectED 2015 then you may recall my blog post about the free exam/test voucher for customers and partners for ICS related products. This kind of fell apart while there. Due to some communication issues they did not have the vouchers on site at IBM ConnectED. IBM took remediation steps quickly (awesome move and kudos to Kristin) but you had to read a tiny posting on the event page about going to the Expertise Zone. Most of us saw this when we got back from IB

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Sabre Door or Window Alarm review
Fri, Feb 27th 2015 8:51a Chris MillerWe take a look at the Sabre Door or Window Alarm which is a compact, self adhesive and battery powered system with two types of notifications. You can choose chime or alarm mode. The packaging of the Sabre Door or Window Alarm is the standard hard to open shrink wrap. Once you get past that you find the main unit and side piece that get mounted to anything you want to be notified is opened. Four watch type batteries are already installed (with a plastic insert to save the batteries until you

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Managed Replicas and Mail Delivery Time
Wed, Feb 25th 2015 3:25p Chris MillerIn a recent SocialBIzUG article I wrote about Managed Replicas and Mail Delivery Time. I had a request to figure out why they had some lag times that were not anticipating Chris, I saw your video on using Managed replicas for clients. I currently have Managed replicas set up and 2 server clusters set up. What I noticed is since I set this up, the email is taking much longer to be delivered. I am looking at more of a delivery time of 4-5 minutes for messages as opposed to less than 1 minute.

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IBM ConnectED 2015 Business Partner session replays online
Mon, Feb 23rd 2015 12:28p Chris MillerIBM has released audio and presentation files from Business Partner day at IBM ConnectED 2015. They are available via PartnerWorld with login only. This year at IBM ConnectED 2015, we hosted a track of sessions exclusively for our IBM Business Partners. We shared the vision and strategy for 2015. This track included a special Business Partner kickoff featuring Channelcorp’s Bruce Stuart as the keynote speaker. Bruce provided executive education on how Business Partners can successfully tr

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IBM ConnectED 2015 slides now available to the public
Fri, Feb 13th 2015 2:14p Chris MillerIBM has made the IBM ConnectED 2015 slides available to the public via SocialBIzUG (free registration required). These are the slides found from the IBM ConnectED site. You can still see all the speaker shared ones in the IBM Connect/Lotusphere/IBM ConnectED database. We’re happy to announce that SocialBizUG.org members can now download presentations from ConnectED 2015! Visit our ConnectED 2015 community and click the Download presentations link next to the track names to start downloa

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IBM ConnectED and Lotusphere slides database updated for 2015
Wed, Feb 11th 2015 9:50a Chris MillerI am happy to announce for IBM ConnectED 2015 (aka Lotusphere) the sessions database now has over 30 slidesets from presenters for 2015. All are sorted by time and/or track. Searching is also available on the upper right. There is a tag cloud for easy sorting and on the right a breakdown by track for more sorting options. Full text searches are also available for digging into specific abstract content. So head over to the IBM Connect sessions database find the slides you were missing or wan

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IBM ConnectED 2015 overall conference and session evaluation forms online
Mon, Feb 9th 2015 3:55p Chris MillerIBM has not communicated well that IBM ConnectED 2015 overall conference evaluation and individual session evaluation forms are online to be filled out. The homepage of IBM ConnectED 2015 now has a link on the right (note the arrows) to take the overall conference survey. You will need to have an IBM Event Connect account for IBM ConnectED to submit the survey. There are numerous sliders, questions and freeform text boxes looking for your input. PLease go and fill that out. there is no free

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IBM announced a cloud file sharing service at IBM ConnectED 2015
Mon, Feb 9th 2015 1:25p Chris MillerIBM, via Jeff Schick, announced at IBM ConnectED 2015, a cloud file sharing service to compete with services like Dropbox, Box and Copy. While exact dates were not offered this is an interesting market for IBM to enter now. This cloud based file sharing will be based on IBM Cloud Connections and is likely an entry point into upselling users on a full IBM Connections deployment. While an exact date for this offering was not made, the infrastructure beginnings are already in place. What I fou

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IBM Connections Cloud is changing IP ranges again
Thu, Feb 5th 2015 8:05a Chris MillerIBM announced that IBM Connections Cloud will be adding new IP ranges and sunsetting previous ones. Here is the announcement IP Address Changes in February 2015 Action required if your firewalls require IP addresses! On or after February 07, 2015, IBM will be adding several new IP address ranges to the network supporting the Connections Cloud and SmartCloud Notes services in our United States based data center. We plan to transition to these new ranges, sunsetting some of the current ranges